/ ^ X THE bserver OThe Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Marys VOLUME 42 : ISSUE 69 MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2008 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Events honor Martin Luther King Day Student With classes in session, letter-writing campaign, prayer service remember leader's legacy assaulted “I don’t think that there are said. but it has been received really By LIZ HARTER more or less events this year for Events range from a letter well, so I’m hoping that the chair Assistant News Editor Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,” writing campaign for the troops next year will carry on this new said Lai-nin Wan, chair of the overseas through the A Million tradition,” Wan said. on Bulla The legacy of Martin Luther Student Senate Multicultural Thanks organization and termi­ There will also be an all-cam­ King, Jr. is nationally recognized Affairs Committee. “I think nally ill children through the pus prayer service in the rotun­ once a year with many employ­ they’re simply just a lot better Make a Child Smile organization da of the Main Building at 12:30 ers canceling work and televi­ advertised.” to setting up Valentine’s Day dec­ p.m. at which University Undergrad reported sion stations broadcasting King’s Wan said her committee is orations and playing Bingo with President Father John Jenkins attacker hit, kicked her famous “I have a dream” speech. actively working to advertise the residents at the Healthwin and Hugh Page, dean of the Today, classes at Notre Dame events they planned for today. Specialized Care Center in down­ University First Year of Studies, continue, but activities through­ The committee chose community town South Bend. will offer prayers and reflections By KAREN LANGLEY out the week will celebrate the service as a way to do something The community centers that on the life of King. News Editor activist’s life 40 years after his for the South Bend community in will be receiving aid from stu­ “The prayer service is some­ assassination. the name of King, Wan said. dents are those that expressed thing we’ve brought back,” Wan An undergraduate student While there have been Martin “[King] in many ways symbol­ an interest in working with the said. “This is something we used reported being assaulted Luther King, Jr. Day activities in ized togetherness and empha­ committee. to do back in the 90s, but haven’t Thursday evening in a parking lot the past, events are more visible sized the importance of growing “This is the first year we’re at Fischer Graduate Residences on campus this year. together as a community,” she going to have this day of service, see MLK/page 4 along Bulla Road, Notre Dame Security/Police said. The student told NDSP she was struck in the face and then kicked by a man who approached her Cardinal commemorates first Moreau feast after walking behind her, NDSP Director Phillip Johnson said in a campus-wide e-mail Thursday Former Washington, D.C. archbishop headlines conference on Holy Cross Congregation founder night. The man asked the woman questions before grabbing her arm and hitting her in the face, McCarrick described he said. When she then fell to the By JOHN TIERNEY Moreau as “a very extraordi­ News Writer ground, the man kicked her, she nary man and a great man told NDSP. for our times.” He credited Johnson had “no information to Cardinal Theodore Moreau with helping to save share about” the nature of those McCarrick, former archbish­ the church in France follow­ questions, he said Sunday. He did op of Washington, D.C., ing the anti-establishment not know if the woman sought movements of the French headlined Saturday’s confer­ medical attention, he said. ence “A Great Cloud of Revolution. The man then fled in a vehicle, Witnesses: Saints in the Moreau’s life from 1799- possibly accompanied by two 1873 should be viewed in Catholic Tradition” with a other people, NDSP said. The sus­ context of the turmoil that glowing speech on the life of pect in the assault was described then enveloped his native Father Basil Moreau, founder to NDSP as a 5-foot-10 to 6-foot- France, McCarrick said. of the Congregation of the tall black male of stocky build. He Holy Cross. “France was a very inter­ appeared to be between 20 and esting and confusing place,” The conference was held in 25 years of age and was wearing McCarrick said. The revolu­ honor of the first celebration a black Puma jacket, NDSP said. of Moreau’s feast day tionaries “wanted to get rid Nothing was stolen from the of the Church and its power Sunday. woman, and no reason for the Moreau is a man that the so that it could never come assault has surfaced, Johnson cardinal “would have loved back.” said. to have known,” McCarrick Despite the anti-Church “It’s not clear what the motive said. “He has become a movements of the early 19th was,” he said. friend of mine. I hope that century, Moreau’s family PHIL HUDELSON/The Observer The incident is considered an you too will become a friend Cardinal Theodore McCarrick delivers a lecture about the life of of Basil.” see MCCARRICK/page 6 Father Basil Moreau at the McKenna Hall auditorium Saturday. see ASSAULT/page 4 NAACP chapter puts on pageant SMC hosts weeklong 'Mr. and Ms. Ebony' crowned in third-annual event in Washington Hall heritage celebration By AMBER TRAVIS knowledge of who we are now News W riter By KATIE KOHLER and who we have been must Saint Mary's Editor be linked.” A small group of Notre Dame Student Body president Kim students gathered for the third Students, faculty and staff Hodges, along with the rest of annual Mr. and Ms. Ebony ND will commemorate the BOG, has changed the events Pageant on Saturday in College’s heritage through a for the week to encourage Washington Hall. week-long series of movies, more student participation, The pageant is sponsored by the speeches and a closing dinner she said. Rather than the book Notre Dame Chapter of the on Friday. signing and speakers included NAACP. The College’s third Heritage in last year’s week, this week’s The winners of this year’s pag­ Week kicked off Sunday with a celebrations will include a eant were senior Milo Dodson and Beatification Mass at the dance performance and ice freshman Rachael Banks, who Church of Loretto. cream social. were each one of three males and “Heritage Week is one of the The Heritage Dinner at the three females competing for the most salient events hosted by end of the week and a few title. [Board of Governance] minor events, however, The pageant was founded by because it continues the tradi­ remain unchanged. seniors Usi Abugo and Brittany tions of the college as well as “The entire week should be Canty, who is also the current communicates the history to jam packed,” she said. “We president of NAACP, in 2006 after Photo courtesy of Mallory Jacobs the student body,” Hodges are optimistic that there will Senior Milo Dodson, left, and freshman Rachael Banks were said. “In an effort to keep the see PAGEANT/page 4 crowned Mr. and Ms. Ebony on Saturday. spirit of who we are alive, the see HER1TAGE/page 6 page 2 The Observer ♦ PAGE 2 Monday, January 21, 2008 Inside C olumn Question of the Day: W h a t is y o u r fav o rite p la c e to eat o ff c a m p u s ? Culture shock When I got off of the airplane tired and hungry during one of several lay­ overs 1 had on the trek back from my Mark Hincaple Andrea Torres-Hermoza Amanda Clark Andrew Wright Monsy Corbera semester in Rome, I suddenly knew that I was in America with the first two din­ sophomore junior sophomore junior sophomore ing options I Stanford Pasquerilla West Breen-Phillips Siegfried McGlinn saw: Domino’s Emma Driscoll Pizza and TCBY --------------------------- (The Country’s “Carabba’s “Outback “Bonefish “Hana-Yori “Chipotle Best Yogurt). As News Wire Editor because I like because I go because I’m because it’s because it’s the I stood there, looking back and Italian cuisine.' there with classy. ” where I take all closest to forth between friends at the m y dates. ’’ Mexican here in the two, all 1 could think was that beginning and South Bend." Dominos was fake pizza and that the best this country had to offer was noth­ end of every ing like Old Bridge gelato. This experi­ semester. ” ence was only the beginning of culture shock. And things got even more shocking last week, my first back at Notre Dame since May. The computer cluster on the second floor of the library seems to have disap­ In B rief peared. I keep forgetting to enter my net ID and password to print at the clusters, and then I end up thinking that There will be a prayer service the printers are broken. Construction today at 12:15 p.m. to honor the blocks my normal route to DeBartolo. A legacy ofDr. M artin Luther new dorm is being built. 1 can never King Jr. The prayer service will decide if acquaintances will remember ; be held in the rotunda of the me from last spring. People look Main Building. Prayers will be younger. The dining halls have Coke offered by University President i Father John Jenkins and Hugh Zero — but no Coca—Cola Light — and apple slices.